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- From: jasper@molbiol.ox.ac.uk
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- Subject: RE: GCGMENU using MFTU
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.230529.1@molbiol.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 22:05:29 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.140947.13650@gserv1.dl.ac.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan22.140947.13650@gserv1.dl.ac.uk>, gartmann@VMS.MPIIB-FREIBURG.MPG.dbp.de (Christoph Gartmann) writes:
- >
- > unfortunately I didn't realize that you need MFTU to decode MFTU on
- > fileserv@wkuvx1.bitnet (and then UnZIP). Sorry for that.
-
- Or for those who have ftp :) Hunter Goatley's fileserver is mirrored in the
- [.macro32.savesets] directory at ftp.spc.edu - loads of cool stuff here.
-
- Since Hunter's connection to the net is through a 9600 baud line it's better,
- if you can, to use the ftp option.
-
- > By the way: as far as I know there are only two programs which are able to
- > keep VMS file-attributes when encoding and decoding a file - MFTU and the new
- > ZIP. As GCG-menu consists not only of executables but of RMS-datafiles and
- > VMS-libraries, the only way to transfer the package properly is through one
- > of the archivers mentioned above.
-
- Zip also has great compression ratios and replaces Zoo on that count also.
-
- > +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- > | Christoph Gartmann Phone : +49-761-5108-465 Fax: -221 |
- > | Max-Planck-Institut fuer PSI : PSI%02624505016037::GARTMANN |
- > | Immunbiologie X400 : S=gartmann;OU=vms;O=mpiib-freiburg; |
- > | Stuebeweg 51 P=mpg;A=dbp;C=de |
- > | D-7800 Freiburg RFC : gartmann@vms.mpiib-freiburg.mpg.dbp.de |
- > | FRG will change to: gartmann@immunbio.mpg.de |
- > +------------- Do you know MENUE, the user environment for VMS? -------------+
-
- Jasper Rees
- Oxford University Molecular Biology Data Centre
- and The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
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- jasper@molbiol.ox.ac.uk
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